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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY oononruv;

Be it knoivn that I, EBEN M. BOYNTON, of Grand Rapids, in the county ofKent, and State of Michigan, have .invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Saw-Handle Fastenings or Tangs; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of thisspecification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, likeletters indicating like parts wherever theyoecur.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my invention, Iwill proceed to describe it.

My invention consists in constructing, in a novel manner, a detachablehandle-sockct or.tang for saws.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a saw, with my improvedtang applied.

Figure 2 is a bottom plan View of the tang detached.

Figure 3 a top plan viewfof the same.

Figure 4 an edge view of the slotted bolt by which the socket is securedto the saw.

It is Well known to those experienced in the business of using cross-cutsaws, that it frequently happens, in sawing oil logs, especially wherethe log happens to lie on uneven ground, the upper side of the cut madeby the saw is forced together or closed, in such a manner as to preventthe raising of the saw up out of the cut, and

jvhcn this happens there is no means of removing the saw, except byraising the log, so as to open the cut, on

by removing the handle and its sockets at one end of the saw, and-thendrawing the latter through cndwise.

As these sockets or tangs are usually riveted fast to the saw, it isimpossible toremove them without great difficulty and delay. To obviatethese diflicultics a variety of plans have been devised for so securingthe socket "that it can be detached from the saw, but as yet thesedevices have not fully answered the desired purpose.

The object of my invention is td so construct a socket that it can besecured firmly and rigidly to the saw,

and at the same time to permit of its being easily and quickly detachedand replaced.

I construct a socket, A, with an arm, B, projecting laterally from oneside, .as represented in figs. 1, 2, and 3, the socket A being intendedto receive the ordinary wooden handle used with such saws. In ,the underside of the arm or projection 13, a longitudinal groove, 92, isformed,-as represented in fig. 2, and as indicated by dotted lines infig. 1, this groove being intended to fit upon the upper edge of thesaw-blade when the socket is applied thereto, as represented in fig. 1,the groove also extending down along the side of the socket A, as shownby the dotted lines. I then provide a bolt, D, having a slit, e, in it,of suflicient length to slip over the end of the saw, the upper end ofthe bolt D extending up through a hole, 0, in the arm B, and having athumb-nut, E, applied thereto, as represented in fig. 1. If desired, anotch may be cut in the under edge of the saw-blade C, to receive thelower portion of the bolt I) where it passes around the blade, andprevent it from slipping thereon.

Themanner of applying the device to the saw is fullyshown in fig. 1.Itwill be seen that, when the socket is applied, as there represented,the groove in the under side of the arm 13 prevents any lateralmovement, and when the thumb-screw is tightened up the whole is heldtightlyin place, and at the same time, by simply loosening the nut, theloop or bolt D, with the socket, can be quickly'detached from the saw,and can be as quickly replaced.

By making the socket of malleable cast iron, it can be cast ready foruse, and thus furnished very cheaply. If desired, the bolt and nut mayalso be made of similar material, though these I prefer to make ofwrought iron.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, is y y The detachablesaw-tang, consisting of the socket A, with the arm B, having the groove12 formed in its under side, in combination with the slotted bolt D andthe thumb-nut E, substantially as described.

' EBEN M. BOYNTON.

Witnesses:

P. R. L. PEIncE, GEO. 0. Person.

